Improvement in apparatus for supplying hydrocarbon oil to water under pressure



W. MAJOR APPARATUS ,Fon SUPPLYING HYDnocARBoN 011. To WATER UNDER PRESSURE.

Patented May 8,1877.

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o-uTHoGRAPH'En, WASHINGTON. D c4 N. PETERS. FHOT NrrED STATES WILLIAM MAJOR, OF GOPENHAGEN, DENMARK.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING HYDROCARBON OIL T0 WATER UNDER PRESSURE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N o. 196,603, dated May B, 1877; application iiled April 7, 1877.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM MAJOR, en gineer in the Royal Danish Navy, of Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark, have invented certain new and usefull Improvements in the Application of Petroleum or other Hydrocarbon Oils to Steam-Boilers and other Vessels and an Apparatus therefor 5 and I do hereby' declare that the following is a full` clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this speciflcation- My invention relates to the constructionI of an apparatus for'supplying petroleum (kerosene) or other hydrocarbon oils to water un; der pressure for the purpose of purifying the same for steam-boiler and manufacturing purposes; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, which I shall now proceed more fully to describe with reference to the drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a sectional view of the storingtank, with feeding-faucet; and` Fig. 2 is asimi- M lar view, on an enlarged scale, of the feedingfaucet detached.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the tank in which the ol is stored. This, which maybe of any suitable ysi'zefand shape, may, if the oil is to be supplied to a steam-boiler together with the feed-water, be placed inthe engine-room, or -in any` place .convenient thereto; It has a filling-tube, B,

extending nearly to the bottom thereof, and

provided with a tightly-fitting screw-cover, b. C is the pipe through which' the oil is drawn. This also extends nearly to the bottom of tank A, as shown. It is connected `by `a suitable coupling, E, with the conduit-pipe F, having at the end the feeding-faucet D. This,` the detailed constructionof which .will be readily Vunderstood by reference to Fig. 2 of the drawing, has a stop-cock, d, by which the supply of oil may at any time be cut off. The supply of oil, when permitted to ilow, is regulated by a valve, a, having a stem, c, which ts in' a recess, e, of the screw-threaded cap or cover Gr, of faucet D. In recesse, above the stem c, I place a coiled spring, f, which serves to press the valve against its seat, as shown.

When my improved apparatus is used for will raise the valve a, thus causing the oil toV flow with the water, the proportional quantity being easily regulated by raising or lowering the cap G, which may, if desirable, be provided with a graded indicator. By turning the cock d the supply of oil may, at any time, be entirely cut off.

By supplying the feed-water with hydrocarbon oil in the manner described all such mineral, vegetable, or other impurities as are containedtherein are filtered therefrom, and precipitated to the bottom of the boiler, from which they may afterward be blown off, in the usual manner. Incrustations or priming of steam-boilers are thus obviated, and the danger of explosion or of destruction of the interior parts of the boiler is thus lessened, or completely obviated.

It is obvious that, instead of feeding the oil from my improved apparatus direct to the steam-boiler, it may be forced or fed into a storing-tank, in which the water is kept under heat and pressure, the result being the same. The water thus purified may be used advantageously for bleaching, drying, and various other manufacturing and industrial purposes, as well as for steam-boilers.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim FFICE0 o 3. The apparatus herein described for sup- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as plying petroleum or other hydrocarbon oil to my own I have here aflixed my signature in water while under heat and pressure for puripresence of two witnesses.

cation purposes, consisting of the storing- WILLIAM MAJOR,

tank A and feeding-faucet D, both constructed Engineer- Danish Navy. and arranged to operate substantially as herein Witnesses:

described, for the purposes shown and speci- UARL HEOKSHEN,

ed. CARL KJAR. 

